| kowenicki said: There is no doubt that 7 was a massive improvement over Vista. But Vista was never anywhere near as bad as people said. People talk about sales of Windows OS but seem to forget that sales are guaranteed. Windows OS will be pre-installed on every new PC and every new laptop soon enough. Also they have had an upgrade program for the last few months where the upgrade is very inexpensive. Windows 8 will sell very well, maybe not as well as 7, but very very well indeed. Microsoft will have a massive financial year. The zune mp3 player was sooo much better than an ipod, it was a sensational device. But you simply cant compete in that arena against the ipod. The xbox was a reasonable first forray into gaming, it beat the Nintendo gamecube and laid the foundations of the massively succesful successor. |
Vista was terrible and was a huge resource hog. I remember when it came out I installed it on my laptop at the time. (2.1ghz pentium m) and everything slowed to a crawl. I put XP back on shortly after. I stayed with XP for a loooong time before finally upgrading to win7. I have no plans to switch to win8 as it doesn't really seem like an upgrade over win7. Maybe if MS priced the upgrade like Apple prices theirs now $20 for ML) I'd consider upgrading.
It would've helped Zune if MS had tried to do anything with it outside of the U.S. I really wanted a Zune HD when it first came out, but MS didn't sell them in Japan. I hoped the Zune store would ship overseas, but nope US only even with my US credit card. I would've had to ship it to my parents and then give them money to ship it to me.
In the end I went with an iPod touch as I could get them easily and it ended up being less expensive than the Zune HD(without having to go through all of those hoops to get one.)
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Me since the games were revealed, the fanboys since E3." 
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